/495/ Heritage America vs the World? ft. James Pogue

24/06/2025 1h 16min Episodio 503
/495/ Heritage America vs the World? ft. James Pogue

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Episode Synopsis

On land conflicts, MAGA , and the frontier.
Journalist James Pogue talks to George and Alex about his book Chosen Country: A Rebellion in the West. The book concerns the events surrounding the 2016 armed occupation of the Oregon Malheur National Wildlife Refuge led by the rancher Ammon Bundy. We discuss:


Why were these 2016 events so important and so telling?


Is the Jacksonian concept of America still relevant?


Does knowing how these people think enable you to predict what Trump – or JD Vance – will do?


How is Mormonism the encapsulation of a certain America?


Is the division on the Right about 'winners' versus 'losers' (or lost-causers)?


Is this story also America First versus Globalists?


How unique is the US's forms of political polarisation?